Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choosing healthier versions of food such as lower-fat sausages or chips is another way of making meals a bit healthier and how you cook food makes a difference too — grilling or baking instead of roasting or frying , for instance . |
| 2 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 3 | I 'm driving along and there was somebody coming round and it was a bit narrow and so I hung back and let him come through |
| 4 | Does he accept that the position of sterling is a verdict on industrial performance and , if so , is the verdict guilty or not guilty ? |
| 5 | Laurel Queen took her career score to 17 from 45 outings in the claimer , trainer Jack Berry shrugging : ‘ She is not bad in this sort of company , but is a bit moody and never the same two days in a row . ’ |
| 6 | Are n't people like yourselves being a little bit presumptuous and perhaps even arrogant in feeling that you can help people solve their problems in the rest of the world . |
| 7 | He seems to be a bit strange and possibly mildly depressed . |
| 8 | He seems to be a bit strange and possibly mildly depressed . |
| 9 | If we recover more of a text 's historicity , recapture the lost agencies which originally motivated its emergence and come to understand more about the conditions of its emergence , we may find a cultural presence strange and apparently remote from our own . |
| 10 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 11 | Accepting that , the health authorities say that the damage in the present case was suffered by the plaintiff whilst still en ventre sa mère and therefore while not a person in the eyes of English law . |
| 12 | The leading judgment , expressing the majority view , was given by Lamont J. The maxim , which I have already quoted , led to the conclusion that as the child en ventre sa mère was born alive it was to be treated as having being alive while en ventre sa mère and so could claim damages for an injury at that time . |
| 13 | A neighbour said : ‘ Suzannah is about six foot tall and very attractive . |
| 14 | As she was just under six foot tall and very slim , wore her dark hair closely cropped , and her face though free of make-up was not unattractive , the result was certainly striking . |
| 15 | You know , one of the effects are a little bit tranquil but anyway , the other thing which erm , everyone really enjoyed , er , cos I know you would remember this er , Dougie , is your first kiss |
| 16 | Gradually , you will build up your distance , get your breathing right and eventually you 'll be hooked . |
| 17 | Among 85 patients with no personal or family history of melanoma , 5 invasive ( level 2 or deeper ) melanomas developed during 583 person-years of follow up . |
| 18 | During this time 0.054 melanomas would be expected ( from the rate in the local population ) among these patients , but 5 patients ( 3 women and 2 men aged 18–28 years ) have each developed 1 invasive primary malignant melanoma ( level 2 or deeper ) ( table II ) . |
| 19 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 20 | In general , what people find most stimulating and most attractive is a bit different but not too different from what they know already . |
| 21 | Even in those species that choose a mate that is a bit different but not too different from close kin , other factors are also important . |
| 22 | In my own work with Japanese quail I have found that this process may lead to a preference for a partner that is slightly novel — just a bit different but not too different from the members of the opposite sex it knew when it was young ( Bateson , Mate Choice ) . |
| 23 | A family with a rounded flat disk covered by small imbricating plates amongst which the centrodorsal and primary plates usually distinct ; the radial shields small , length less than half the radius of the disk , well separated from one another ; the jaw broader or as broad as long ; usually one sometimes two apical papillae flanked by 5–7 oral papillae on each side the distalmost slightly curved and extending beneath the largest oral papilla just proximal to it , it is possible that this distalmost papillae is part of the second oral tentacle pore ; the adoral shields large and wing-like ; the oral shield large , rounded triangular or arrow shaped , usually longer than broad ; the arms long and slender ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates well developed and contiguous at least proximally ; the tentacle pores moderately large each armed with one or two flat leaf-like tentacle scales ; usually three times long , erect arm spines , equal in length to two arm segments . |
| 24 | And er rock er dropped use that expression , they used they were both right at the at the foot of the quarry face or precipice or whatever somewhere around a hundred foot high and then th they blasted the top see and dropped a whole fall . |
| 25 | Again it 's only about four foot high and about four foot wide and a beautiful flower , a beautiful old fashioned type flower and a new , new variety of er of shrub rose and of course again it 's repeat flowering so they go on right through the season and both of them their fragrance is beautiful . |
| 26 | how would you think the weather , I mean we 're being a bit flippant but how will the weather affect the Pisan team ? |
| 27 | But it paid off in the end ; here was the pretty little Girl-Human walking over to talk to them , smiling up at them — Inchbad always noticed the fair , smooth skins of humans , whereas giantesses were apt to be a bit coarse and occasionally had incipient beards . |
| 28 | In the model the Arctic ozone hole appeared as a direct result of the changes in circulation induced by both doubling the amount of CO 2 and properly representing the radiative feedbacks of the evolving ozone distribution . |
| 29 | For the remaining simulation with doubled CO 2 and radiatively interactive ozone the PSCs existed well into April . |
| 30 | Finally , with both doubled CO 2 and fully interactive ozone ( Fig. 1 d ) there was a marked change in the evolution and a stratospheric warming no longer occurred . |